Organic Matters
By Irish Organic Association
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Episodes: 123
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Organic Matters Podcast is brought to you every Saturday by the Irish Organic Association. Our host Hannah Quinn-Mulligan will expertly guide you through each episode as we meet organic farmers and food producers from all over Ireland. We have been certifying organic farms and businesses for 40 years and we bring you a flavour of why organic matters now more than ever. Meet some of our fantastic members discussing how organic is central to their business. Tune in every Saturday at 12 noon.
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Season 4: Outwintering beef cattle on cover crops and growing crop mixes
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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Season 4: Switching from sheep to organic beef, cereals and agri-tourism
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Season 4: Producing Turkeys for Christmas, Milling Oats and More
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Season 4: Organics helping to save rare breeds and grasslands
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Season 4: Balancing organic tillage, beef, horses and nature
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Season 4: First time tillage farmer successfully growing crops and selling direct
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Season 4: Sums adding up for organic tillage and sheep in Carlow
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Season 4: Direct selling your own suckler beef
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Season 4: Championing native Irish sheep and wool
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Season 4: Buying 20ac to address short supply chain issues in organics
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Season 4: Growing an organic egg, veg and suckler beef system
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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Season 4: Second year suckler farming in organics
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Season 4: Making Organic Beef Farming Work for You
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Season 4: Combining forestry with organics
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Season 3: How Organic Exotic Mushrooms saved one Irish couple after Brexit
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Season 3: Developing an organic oil and spices oil business
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Season 3: Building direct selling veg and combi crop businesses
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Season 3: Mob grazing livestock in Cork
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Season 3: Developing a farm shop, café, egg and veg business on a social farm
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Season 3: French sucklers flourishing in east Cork
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Season 3: From International Development to Aronia Berries
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Season 3: Masterclass in organic arable silage
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Season 3: First year converting a suckler, sheep and tillage farm to organic
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Season 3: Breeding Galloways and growing Barley for whiskey
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Season 3: Converting a 60 acre dairy farm to organic vegetables
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Season 3: Attracting 150,000 visitors a year to an organic farm and shop
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Season 3: The pros and cons of opening a farm shop
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Season 3: Farming organically next to Ireland's largest shopping centre
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Season 3: Marketing Organic Beef as a Premium Product
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Season 3: Using a farm shop and café to maximise your organic business
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Season 3: Making an organic suckler system work for you
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Season 3: Catching up with a trial growing lupins
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May 25, 2024 |
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Season 3: Tillage farm growing gluten free oats, miscanthus and installing solar panels
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May 11, 2024 |
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Season 3: Suckler farm switching to organics
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Season 3: Building an organic egg business
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Season 3: Starting an organic flour mill as a farmer
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Season 3: Mastering the composting of farmyard manure
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Season 3: Plans to use lupins as cattle feed and other organic tillage
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Season 2: From conventional dairy farmer to organic Wagyu beef entrepreneur
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Season 2: Direct selling organic dexter beef and working with other organic farmers
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Season 2: Building a bread business on organic foundations
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Season 2: Finishing Organic Lamb and Shepherd's Huts for Agri-tourism
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Season 2: Bord Bia Marketing & Promotional Plans for Irish Organics
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Season 2: Converting to Organic Farming - How to Join the IOA Part 2
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Season 2: Converting to Organic Farming - How to Join the IOA Part 1
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Season 2: Ireland’s Strategy for Organics and the New Organic Trading Hub
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Season 2: Producing Organic seaweed fertiliser for customers all over the world
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Season 2: "Don't worry about what the neighbour thinks"
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Season 2: The future for Glenisk
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Season 2: Irish organic farmer up for big European award
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Season 2: Applying lime and animal husbandry in suckler farming
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Season 2: Creating an organic garden in an Irish hotel
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Season 2: Manure master class
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Season 2: Urgent need to develop organic markets
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Season 2: Building a successful organic meat enterprise
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Season 2: Smoothing the way for organic skincare
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Season 2: Aiming for biodynamic certification and sheep farming
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Season 2: Starting a successful salad growing business
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Season 2: Growing your own animal feed and Stabiliser cattle
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Season 2: 'Getting bigger doesn't mean getting better' - Green Earth Organics
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Season 2: English farm processing 30,000 litres of milk a day
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Season 2: Farm diversification and conservation in the Burren
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Season 2: Experimenting with min till and agro-foresty
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Season 2: Developing an organic market for buyers and sellers
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Season 2: How to make high quality organic silage
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Season 2: Taking on the family farm business
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May 28, 2023 |
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Season 2: Secrets to successful farm diversifcation in Canada
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May 27, 2023 |
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Season 2: Feeding over 200 beef cattle and building a shed
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May 20, 2023 |
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Season 2: Korean Natural Farming - creating your own farm inputs
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May 13, 2023 |
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Season 2: Switching enterprises and organic rosé veal
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May 06, 2023 |
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Season 2: The do's and don'ts of growing clover and MSS
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Season 2: Organic TAMS and how to make good quality silage
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Season 2: Finishing organic poultry and targeting high-end markets
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Season 2: Microbes helping to grow grass and crops
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Season 2: Soil impact on crop fertility, livestock and SCC
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Season 2: Growth in demand and challenges for organic seed sector
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Season 2: Striving for optimum soil health
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Season 2: Genetics and Sheep
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Season 2: Finding organic seed and how to grow or sow it
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Season 2: Saving Ireland's heritage orchards and seeds
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Organic smoked salmon
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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Doubling organics in Denmark
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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Selling 12,000 litres of organic milk a day
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Organic farmer wins national Farming for Nature award
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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What do organic farmers think of ACRES?
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Dairy dilemmas from California to Scotland
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Direct selling vegetables
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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The future of organic lamb: what sheep farmers need to know
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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***Podcast Special on Entering Organics*** - Episode 3: Farm Finances
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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***Podcast Special on Entering Organics*** - Second Episode: Organic Housing and Sheds
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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How much will organic farmers get from ACRES?
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Demand for organics at the Ploughing
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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***Podcast Special on Entering Organics*** - First Episode
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Scottish organic farmer selling 33,000 litres of milk/week to customers
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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"Thoughtful tillage" and Holistic Grazing
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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Comfrey tea compost and Christmas turkeys
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Brexit provides opportunity for organic cheese
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Switching from Holistic to Short Grass grazing in organic dairy
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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Getting up to €11/kg for lamb and selling seaweed fertiliser
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Ireland's only organic plant nursery
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Agri-tourism on a suckler farm
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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Converting from conventional suckler to organic dairy farming
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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New Organic and Biological Agriculture Masters
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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Building a successful horticulture business
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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Organic farmers get priorty access to ACRES scheme and summer farm management tips
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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Discovering a symbiosis between conventional dairy and organic tillage
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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Creating the perfect organic 'corner shop'
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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Poultry enabling a switch to full-time farming
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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'Potential for growth in organics' - European Commissioner on Irish organics sector
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski on organic farming in Ireland
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May 30, 2022 |
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Finishing cattle on red clover silage and selling out of sucklers
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May 28, 2022 |
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From calving cows to cappuccinos - one farm's journey to starting an organic café
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May 21, 2022 |
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Giving sheep a chance - adding value to wool
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May 14, 2022 |
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Making more from salad than cows - organic horticulture in Cork
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May 07, 2022 |
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Sowing clover and MSS in an organic system
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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Developing an on-farm café and growing organic crops for human consumption
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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Slurry treatments, farm nutrient requirements and meeting climate targets
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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Direct selling raw organic milk - a farmer's view
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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Urban Co-op: buying, selling and sourcing organic food
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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Organic tillage and weed control
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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Finishing cattle on combi-crops and the how the Organic Farming Scheme might look in the future!
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Organic flour in Monaghan
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Entering organic farming in Westmeath
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Mar 03, 2022 |